Weekly challenge 6/5 - 6/11 Zoom zoom zoom! EXTENDED until 6/18

[SquarePeg]

Yes, Washington Sailing Marina (Dangerfield Island).

The first is the 100-400 and the second is the 300. The settings in camera were the same and the post processing settings for one were applied to the other.

The two were shot a few minutes apart and the cloud cover was changing slowly but was still very similar.

My conclusion: some of today's best zoom's are on par with some primes. @snowbear 's 70-200 looks great as does @fishing4sanity 's 150-600 and the flexiblity they provide in a dynamic situation may outweigh any optical advantage in a prime....but I still have four primes.

Maybe @SquarePeg will do a zoom/prime comparison with her new 70-300 and an overlapping prime?

The only overlapping prom I have is the 90 f2 which is my least used lens. I don’t have a lot of primes that aren’t macro related (60mm and 56mm) and nine king enough to make a good comparison. I’ll try it with the 90.

 

[Scott Whaley]

Hank the Heron eating a crawl fish.

 

[photoflyer]

Hank the Heron eating a crawl fish.

Fantastic. I got a similar shot Friday of one eating a baby turtle. It was surprising because it let me watch from the boat at about forty feet away while it gulped the turtle and then a fish.

 

[smithdan]

a comparo attempt.. my longest zoom and my longest prime on a converter. No crops or editing

SMC Pentax F 100 - 300 at 300mm f8. Not the best lens out there but the price was right.

Spot's Super Takumar 150 f4, 60's vintage Hanimex 2x converter shot at f5.6

 

[Photo Lady]

 

[Photo Lady]

my friend loves my Dance

 

[SquarePeg]

a comparo attempt.. my longest zoom and my longest prime on a converter. No crops or editing

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SMC Pentax F 100 - 300 at 300mm f8. Not the best lens out there but the price was right.


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Spot's Super Takumar 150 f4, 60's vintage Hanimex 2x converter shot at f5.6

Interesting that the f8 has better creamier background blur than the 5.6.

 

[smithdan]

Interesting that the f8 has better creamier background blur than the 5.6.

If I had been able to shoot the 150 2x combo at f8 the bg's may have been more similar. There was some wind moving the tree so even with a tripod, shutter speed needed to be at least 1/200.

 

[smithdan]

That $15. thrift store 100 - 300 Pentax F again set on f8.

 

[PJM]

He knows his boundaries.

 

[Photo Lady]

He knows his boundaries.
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and he means business!!

 

[PJM]

This one was zooming right along.

 

[Photo Lady]

 

[Photo Lady]

 

[PJM]

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Very nice shots. I like the cheeks on the chipmunk. And, what's the bird behind the cardinal?